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In the Year of Teachers and Mentors, the Academy of the Ministry of Education of Russia is implementing an educational project on naming auditoria after prominent figures in education. It started with the opening of the auditorium named after the first Minister of Education of the USSR Mikhail Prokofiev.
“Commemorating outstanding scientists and educators has always been one of the manifestations of gratitude of professional communities to those who stood at the origins or made a special contribution to the development of national education, science and art. It is important that such a tradition continues today, since it has significance and value for the entire Russian society,” said Maxim Kostenko, Acting Rector of the Academy of the Ministry of Education of Russia.
Mikhail Prokofiev headed the USSR Ministry of Education from 1966 to 1984. During this period, the country made the transition to universal free secondary education, and all schools were provided with free textbooks. On his initiative, working skills and professional knowledge were introduced in school education, advanced courses, electives and school clubs were developed. Mikhail Prokofiev is the author of more than 300 publications on pedagogy, his professional activity was closely connected with school science.
By the end of 2023, the Academy of the Ministry of Education of Russia will have auditoria dedicated to Anatoly Lunacharsky, the first People’s Commissar of Education of the RSFSR and author of the “general elimination of illiteracy”, Vladimir Potemkin, People’s Commissar of Education of the RSFSR and the first president of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the RSFSR, and Leontiy Magnitsky, a Russian mathematician of the 18th century and a teacher at the School of Mathematical and Navigational Sciences in Moscow.